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Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale [#permalink]
01 Nov 2007, 11:50

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Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves.
(A) fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves
(B) fund, the intention of which is to sustain the state’s economy after they have exhausted their oil reserves
(C) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted
(D) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after exhausting its oil reserves
(E) fund that they intend to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted

Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves.(A) fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves(B) fund, the intention of which is to sustain the state’s economy after they have exhausted their oil reserves(C) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted(D) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after exhausting its oil reserves(E) fund that they intend to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted

Answer to this is C.

Its btwn DC, but its in D is kinda ambigious. Also its suggests that Alaska is the only one that exhausts its oil.

Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves.(A) fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves(B) fund, the intention of which is to sustain the state’s economy after they have exhausted their oil reserves(C) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted(D) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after exhausting its oil reserves(E) fund that they intend to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted

Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves.(A) fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves - Its over here is ambiguous - it could refer to "States economy"(B) fund, the intention of which is to sustain the state’s economy after they have exhausted their oil reserves(C) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted - Correct(D) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after exhausting its oil reserves(E) fund that they intend to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted

thanks Spider, I overlooked "its"...."its" could refer to "State economy" or "Alaska"....stupid mistake on my part...C it is

This one is hard, you have the idiom of intention/intended to, and the pronouns of they/it. Whenever I see an "it" or "they", I always check that first to see if it is VERY clear what they are pointing to.

"its oil reserves" are shown as belonging to the economy, not the state, so those are wrong, leaving c and E.

However, E has a "they" pointing to the fund, and fund isn't really what should be pointed to, should be pointed to Alaska (Alaska intends to sustain)

I like to replace the "it"s and "they"s with teh nearest noun and see if it still makes sense. _________________

Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves.

Comma is redundant (A) fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves Too wordy (B) fund, the intention of which is to sustain the state’s economy after they have exhausted their oil reserves (C) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhaustedWrong (D) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after exhausting its oil reserves Meaning changed - fund will be sustained after oil reserves are exhausted (E) fund that they intend to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted _________________

Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves.(A) fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves - its refers to economy by need to country, because country's reserve and not state's economy reserve(B) fund, the intention of which is to sustain the state’s economy after they have exhausted their oil reserves - incorrectly refer to Alaska which is singular and not plural(C) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted - correct(D) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after exhausting its oil reserves - its refers to economy by need to country, because country's reserve and not state's economy reserve(E) fund that they intend to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted - incorrectly refer to Alaska which is singular and not plural

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